Painting Exhibition by Yavor Tsanev

19 September - 6 October2022

Varna artist Yavor Tsanev, who passed away prematurely in 2014, left behind – despite the untapped potential of his talent – a rich and diverse body of work. As one of the artists from the presently mythologized, but unfortunately ruined artist colony that emerged from the studios of the Vulkan factory, during his active years, Tsanev created and demonstrated the breadth and qualities of his craft– from print graphics, through painting, to plastic and conceptual forms. In fact, while working with different means of expression, Yavor Tsanev consistently developed his plastic and aesthetic platform.

The current exhibition at Stubel Gallery seeks to present the artist via his artistic production in the field of painting. And above all: to show the qualities and messages of lyrical realism in his art, developed as a kind of personal style, but also as a concrete aesthetic position corresponding to the soul of its author.

The exhibition was conceived as the first of two displays of Yavor Tsanev's work in Sofia, with a subsequent edition focusing on another aspect of ​​his artistic activity: printmaking and drawing.

Yavor Tsanev was born on October 13, 1956, in Sofia. After graduating in 1982 in Graphics from the National Academy of Arts in the class of Prof. Petar Chuklev, he moved to Varna, where he lived and worked. He worked in the field of graphics, painting, video art and installation. Yavor Tsanev's creativity is connected with the Group of Ten in Vulkan and Var(t)na club in the late 80s and 90s.

In 2000, he became an associate professor at the Varna Free University, and started teaching at the Technical University, Varna in 2009. He was a member of the public expert council on beautification of the urban environment at the "Culture and Spiritual Development" Directorate of the Municipality of Varna.

Yavor Tsanev had numerous solo exhibitions and participated in dozens of collective exhibitions in Bulgaria and abroad.

He is the winner of awards from: International Biennale of Graphics in Taipei, Taiwan (1991); IV Annual International Miniature Exhibition, Toronto; VIII National Youth Exhibition, Sofia (1985); First prize for graphics at the General Art Exhibition, Targovishte (1998).

Filip Zidarov is the curator of the exhibition.